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Social Studies
5 themes of Geography
Question | Answer |
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5 themes of geography | Place, Region, Human-Enviornment Interactions, Location, and Movement |
What does PRILM stand for? | Place Region Interactions Location Movement |
Includes Physical and Human Differences | Place |
Grouped together in general terms | Region |
How people and the enviornment interact | Human-Enviornment Interactions |
where a place is. includes General and Absolute | Location |
transportation of people,ideas, and things | Movement |
The 5 themes of Geography were originated by the.... | National Geographic Society |
The study of the earth and everything on it | Geography |
the study of landforms and waterforms | physical geography |
the study of people and their culture | human geography |
the study of the past | history |
the years before Christ was born | B.C |
refers to the years after Christ was born | "Anno Domini" or A.D |
"about or around. used with dates historians are unsure of | circa |
occasionally used in place of B.C. stands for "before common era" | B.C.E |
occasionally used in place of A.D. stands for "after common era" | C.E |
scientists that study people and societies | Anthropologists |
a group of people who have a common origin and share lauguage and history | ethnic group |
scientists who study organized groups of people | sociologists |
a group of people whose culture, race, or ethnic origin is different from that most people in a region | minority group |
a group of people whose culture, race, or ethnic origin is greater than half the total | majority groups |
scientists who study the interaction of people and society | social scientists |
4 characteristics of culture | shared, learned, symbolic, adaptive |
shows cardinal and intermediate directions | compass rose |
can be used to pinpoint locaton using the map's grid system | latitude/longitued coordinates |
used to arrange dates in sequential order | timeline |
shows relationship between distance inmap and distance in reality | scale bar |
explains what thesymbols or colors on a map mean | key/legend |